How to love in Sanskrit
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TextPublication details: Gurugram Harper Pernnial 2024Description: 297 pISBN: 9789356999800Subject(s): sanskrit poetryDDC classification: 891.21 Summary: Witty, surprising and joyous ... A book to pick up, a book to gift. - ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM Beautiful ... A book that will delight the reader. - BIBEK DEBROY Sanskrit has too often been regarded as the sacred language of the gods, yet it is love that has been the overwhelming obsession of Sanskrit writers for over 3,000 years. How to Love in Sanskrit is an invitation to Sanskrit love poetry, bringing together verses and short prose pieces by celebrated writers like Kalidasa and Banabhatta, Buddhist and Jain monks, scholars, emperors, and even some modern-day poets. How do you brew a love potion? Turn someone crimson with a compliment? How do you make love? How do you quarrel and make up? Nurse a broken heart? And how do you let go? There's something for everyone in this brilliantly translated ancient guide to love for modern readers.
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| 891.209 TAR/P Plunging the ocean : courts, castes, and courtesans in the Kathāsaritsāgara | 891.21 BAN/K Kadambari / | 891.21 BAN/K Kadambari / | 891.21 HOW How to love in Sanskrit | 891.21 SOM/T Tales from the Kathasaritsagara | 891.21008 HAK/A Anthology of humorous Sanskrit verses | 891.23 NAR/J Jatakmala or The pearls of Indian Wisdom |
Sanskrit poems translated to English
Witty, surprising and joyous ... A book to pick up, a book to gift. - ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM Beautiful ... A book that will delight the reader. - BIBEK DEBROY Sanskrit has too often been regarded as the sacred language of the gods, yet it is love that has been the overwhelming obsession of Sanskrit writers for over 3,000 years. How to Love in Sanskrit is an invitation to Sanskrit love poetry, bringing together verses and short prose pieces by celebrated writers like Kalidasa and Banabhatta, Buddhist and Jain monks, scholars, emperors, and even some modern-day poets. How do you brew a love potion? Turn someone crimson with a compliment? How do you make love? How do you quarrel and make up? Nurse a broken heart? And how do you let go? There's something for everyone in this brilliantly translated ancient guide to love for modern readers.
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